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Last weekend I had a chance to check out X-Men: First Class , and this blockbuster did not disappoint. It was a good story with lots of great epic battle scenes. The whole younger versions of Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) and Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto (Michael Fassbender) recruiting the first team of X-Men to battle against Sebastian Shaw (Kevin Bacon), a mutant set on world domination was wonderful. One of the themes explored in the movie is how the advent of the nuclear age increased the number of genetic mutations giving rise to a number of mutant people with extraordinary abilities, which would be the next stage in evolutionary development of life on earth. Darwinian Evolution is the story’s explanatory power for mutants and why it is unnecessary to consider their powers as a condition that needs to be “fixed.” In this instance, the story villain Magneto gets it, in so far as he understands the implications of evolutionary theory—the more fit species will survive with the less fit...

Movie watchers everywhere have been gravitating to the latest vampire romance movie, based on the second novel in Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series entitled New Moon . MSNBC reports the film “took in $72.7 million in its first day to break the single-day domestic box office record set by ‘The Dark Knight,’ which had a $67.2 million opening last year.” [1] Yet, New Moon has its alluring features, which takes audiences into the otherworld of vampires and werewolves filled with a hefty lace of romance and unresolved sexual tension bound together in a Romeo and Juliet type of storyline, albeit without the tragic ending. The passion laden romance between Belle Swan (Kristen Stewart) and vampire lover Edward Cullan (Robert Pattinson) is tested in New Moon when the two are separated and she must come to grips with her emotions for another potential suitor—a werewolf the Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Complicating matters is Belle’s struggle over the fact that both suitors must reject her f...